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Susan Dunn

Susan Dunn is Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of The Three Roosevelts, co-written with James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt's Purge, and 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the Election amid the Storm.
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The Debate Behind U.S. Intervention in World War II

73 years ago, President Roosevelt was mulling a third term, and Charles Lindbergh was praising German air strength. A new book by Susan Dunn looks at the dramatic months leading up to the election of 1940.